The vegansexual debate
It was amusing to see the vegansexual debate raging in New Zealand in few weeks ago. It all started with Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, doing research on the lives of “cruelty-free consumers.” Then the Press published an article called ‘Carnivore Sex Off the Menu‘ featuring vegans Nichola and Hans Kriek, which led to a large amount of feedback in New Zealand and offshore.
Myself, I’m not a vegansexual, though I take my hat off to them for following their values. I’m a vegetarian who goes for a bit of cheese on my pizza, so I’m the more laid back vegosexual variety.
Personally, I think the vegan no-sex-with-meateaters thing is a bit of a rare case. For starters, there are a lot more vegetarians than there are vegans. Second, I know of a lot of vegetarians that would happily get with meateaters for a fling, but when there’s steak and kidney in the fridge, it’s the long term relationships that vegetarians can find difficult to sustain. Vegetarians with a soft spot for a meateater are left with three choices – deal with it, move on… or convert them!
August 30th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
It’s interesting that part of their reasoning is the idea that a meateater’s body is a graveyard for dead animals. For me it’s more a philosophical thing than anything physical… I couldn’t be with someone who didn’t care about the planet and who treated animals as expendable commodities, so other vegetarians will always be more attractive to me than carnivores!